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  • The Use Of Cash For Payments Over $100 May Soon ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 6, 2006
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    The use of cash for payments over $100 may soon be come illegal and virtually all paychecks will be required to paid via direct deposit. Its all part of a federal program in the works by the FDIC. This could have serious negative impact on churches that don’t typically issue a receipt for cash ...read more

  • The Center For Creative Leadership In San Diego ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 9, 2006
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    The Center for Creative Leadership in San Diego reports that companies whose leadership was rated high in ethics, employee motivation, employee development and communication enjoy 20% higher profits. Employee replacement costs range from $5,700 to $50,000 per person, not counting the immeasurable ...read more

  • Women Lead: Recent Studies Show That Women ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 13, 2006
     | 2,482 views

    Women Lead: Recent studies show that women execu-tives, when rated by peers, underlings, and bosses, out-score their male counterparts on a wide variety of mea-sures from producing high-quality work to goal setting to mentoring employees. Using elaborate performance eval-uations of execs, ...read more

  • Christian Education: The 102 Members Of The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 27, 2006
     | 1,862 views

    Christian Education: The 102 members of the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities saw enrollment surge 70.6% from ‘90 to ‘04. That compares with 28% for all independent 4-year schools and 12.8% for all public 4--year campuses, according to the National Association of Independent Colleges ...read more

  • Americans Spend $50 Million A Year On Subliminal ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 17, 2006
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    Americans spend $50 million a year on subliminal message tapes designed to help them do everything from improve their self-image to stop smoking. But there’s no hidden message in the National Research Council’s verdict on such techniques. The Council’s report, released in September 1992, concludes ...read more

  • Christian Preaching Begins Only When Faith In ...

    Contributed by Clark Tanner on May 1, 2009
     | 1,475 views

    “Christian preaching begins only when faith in the message has reached such a pitch that the man or the community proclaiming it becomes part of the message proclaimed…” says James S. Stewart in his work, A Faith To Proclaim “…To be thus taken command of, so that our testimony, when we go out to ...read more

  • On The Sequence Of Songs In Revelation 5  PRO

    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Apr 19, 2010
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     | 2,605 views

    ON THE SEQUENCE OF SONGS IN REVELATION 5 Think of this like a commencement on a cosmic scale. The graduate represents three things: ** The past (all the study and hard work she has invested) ** The present (the diploma and honors she receives at his graduation) ** The future (the potential ...read more

  • The Titanic Movie

    Contributed by Roger Nelmes on Jan 29, 2008
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    The Titanic movie Segregation of the rich and poor… Rose DeWitt Bukater, rich, educated and beautiful Caledon Hockley, heir to a Pittsburg steel fortune, handsome and sophisticated. Jack Dawson, a poor orphan who worked from job to job with no real future in sight. This particular movie focused ...read more

  • When I Was In Business School, I Had A Very Wise ...

    Contributed by Anne Benefield on Mar 3, 2008
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    When I was in business school, I had a very wise and at the same time a very unsettling professor. One day he said, “You will hear the truth you are willing to hear.” What he meant was that as a manager, if you intimidated the people working with and for you, they would avoid telling you what you ...read more

  • Most Of Us Could Stand To Think A Little Harder ...

    Contributed by Russell Brownworth on Sep 4, 2008
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    Most of us could stand to think a little harder about using credit wisely. Especially if we are like the man who was speaking to his coworker: "I'm proud to say that I have worked for 30 years, saved, scrimped, budgeted, invested - just so I could give my kids what I never ...read more

  • A Baseball Team Was Running Relays For ...

    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Jan 14, 2009
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    A baseball team was running relays for conditioning. Each player had to put the ball in the next players glove. The players ran as as fast as they could, but then some started dropping the ball. All their work and effort was for nothing without the ball. In the same way, we can run the ...read more

  • Pentecostalism Did Not Begin At The Turn Of The ...

    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Aug 1, 2007
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    Pentecostalism did not begin at the turn of the century on Azusa, but 2,000 years ago in an upper room. A.W. Tozer said, "The Great Commission is not the first call to the church." Tozer reminds us that Jesus first told His disciples to go to Jerusalem and tarry there until they were endued with ...read more

  • So All May Eat

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Oct 22, 2013
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    So All May Eat Brad and Libby Birky opened a restaurant in Denver, Colorado. It is a 40-seat restaurant that has one thing conspicuously absent: a cash register. They serve healthy food to people in need. The Birkys do not charge for their meals, telling people "Pay whatever you can afford." ...read more

  • The Power Of Mom

    Contributed by Davon Huss on May 14, 2014
     | 3,510 views

    A commander of an infantry unit in Vietnam was frustrated in his effort to make a soldier out of one particular PFC. The young man lagged behind on patrols, pretended to be ill, and managed to spend most of his time at headquarters. One day he changed his ways. When someone questioned the ...read more

  • Are You Serving Or Souring

    Contributed by Dr. Ronald Shultz on Jun 13, 2022
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    If you are not serving where you are do not expect to be called to somewhere else to serve. Act 13:2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. Saul/Paul and Barnabas were already serving in the church ...read more

  • The Presence Of His Love Send By ...  PRO

    Contributed by Troy Borst on Jan 2, 2003
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    THE PRESENCE OF HIS LOVE Send by Adams7745P@aol.com The passengers on the bus watched sympathetically as the attractive young woman with the white cane made her way carefully up the steps. She paid the driver and, using her hands to feel the location of the seats, walked down the aisle and found ...read more

  • Children's Perspective On Mom

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on May 4, 2009
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    CHILDREN’S PERSPECTIVE ON MOM. The following are different answers given by school-age children to the stated questions: "Why were mothers created?" 1. She’s the only one who knows where the Scotch tape is. 2. Think about it; it was the best way to get more people. 3. Mostly to clean the ...read more

  • Judging Books! (10.20.05--That Person!--Esther ...  PRO

    Contributed by Mark Brunner on Oct 19, 2005
    based on 4 ratings
     | 3,026 views

    Judging Books! (10.20.05--That Person!--Esther 3:5-6) The other day, a jehovah’s witness came to my door. I’ve seen them many times in the past as they slowly travel down my driveway and descend upon my doorbell. I know what differentiates my faith from theirs and have learned stock answers to ...read more

  • The Amazing Providence Of God  PRO

    Contributed by David Parks on Sep 18, 2006
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    The Amazing Providence of God In the late 1800’s a member of Britain’s Parliament went to Scotland to make a speech. He got off the train in Edinburgh, and then took a carriage south toward his destination. Unfortunately, the carriage became stuck in deep mud. A local farm boy came to the ...read more

  • Years Ago A Farmer Owned Land Along The Atlantic ...  PRO

    Contributed by Bjornlleven Rodriguez on Mar 11, 2003
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     | 5,991 views

    Years ago a farmer owned land along the Atlantic seacoast. He constantly advertised for hired hands. Most people were reluctant to work on farms along the Atlantic. They dreaded the awful storms that raged across the Atlantic, wreaking havoc on the buildings and crops. As the farmer interviewed ...read more